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I’m sure I’m not the first person to have noticed this, but it’s new to me, and I am amused by it–so here we are.

I’ve been knitting a lot this past month, and Star Trek has proved to be good comforting background noise while I work. I started off with the movies (all the movies, from The Motion Picture to Beyond, including the stupid whale one), which I own and have seen a few times (an ex liked to rewatch them all at Christmas, and that’s the kind of nonsense tradition I can get behind). And then, since I still had more knitting to do, I started in on the original series. I would have seen reruns on television growing up, but I didn’t remember anything specific from the show, so it was all new to me in 2017. I was weirdly impressed–it’s still sexist and racist, and deeply absurd–but it was obviously trying, and its optimism has been oddly comforting in these politically tumultuous times.

Now, with that justification out of the way… BEHOLD:

Kirk’s lookin’ kinda good in that chambray number, no?

Clearly Kirk needed to be the sexy one while Spock gets stuck in an absolute potato sack of a sweater. But does the transporter randomly undo pocket buttons?

Or was [Canadian national treasure] William Shatner taking the piss out of the costume designer?

Because seriously… the scene only lasts a few moments, but those damn pocket buttons do-and-undo themselves in a different configuration in almost every cut.

How glorious! There are plenty of continuity faults in the show, but this one’s my fave.

Of course, Trek being Trek, Kirk does not stay in that shirt for long! He and Spock strip down and get whipped by Nazis (it’s a weird episode), and we get a good long look at Shatner’s oiled up chest (with lipstick streaks for whip marks?) as well as a rare view of bare Nimoy chest.